About Nicola Plant
Nicola Plant is an immersive media & visual artist and researcher with an academic and artistic practice that spans embodiment, technology and movement-based interactive art. Nicola creates digital interactive artworks, installations and performances, specialising in real-time graphics and movement-based interactivity using motion-capture and sensors. Her practice develops interactive immersive artworks that explore expressive movement and empathy. More broadly, her practice addresses the question of how technology can augment or deconstruct the experience of embodiment.
Her academic research to date has involved embodied communication and developing machine learning tools for movement design in virtual reality. She has recently completed a research project that explores immersive technologies for dance practice. The project focuses on immersive data visualisations of dance histories, but also the complexities of using machine learning techniques to extract motion data from archival dance footage.
In 2018, Nicola completed a PhD in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London funded by a Digital Economies EPSRC grant. Her research explored embodied communication using various conversation and movement analysis techniques from motion-capture and video data.
